The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian film based on the Banjo Paterson poem of the same name. The film had a cast including Tom Burlinson as "Jim Craig" (The Man), Kirk Douglas as twin brothers "Harrison", the owner of a large cattle station and "Spur", a one-legged miner, Sigrid Thornton as Harrison's daughter Jessica, and Jack Thompson as "Clancy".
Both Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton later reprised their roles in the 1988 sequel, The...
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The Man from Snowy River is a 1982 Australian film based on the Banjo Paterson poem of the same name. The film had a cast including Tom Burlinson as "Jim Craig" (The Man), Kirk Douglas as twin brothers "Harrison", the owner of a large cattle station and "Spur", a one-legged miner, Sigrid Thornton as Harrison's daughter Jessica, and Jack Thompson as "Clancy".
Both Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton later reprised their roles in the 1988 sequel, The Man from Snowy River II, which was released by Disney.
The film opens with a montage of the Snowy River country. The Brumby mob of horses is running though the night and Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) and his father Henry (Terence Donovan) sit in their log cabin discussing their financial situation. Their stock horse Bess starts to spook, and then the sounds of the wild horses galloping is audible. Jim convinces his father that they can catch the horses and they will be worth enough so that they do not have to go off the mountain to find work.
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